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varied ; the chief English exhibitors having been Messrs. R. 
Garrett and Son, Suffolk ; Mr. James Coultas, Grantham ; 
Messrs. Holmes and Sons, Norfolk ; Messrs. Kell, Meats, and 
Co., Gloucester ; Messrs. Rainforth and Sons, Lincoln ; Messrs. 
Corbett and Peele ; Messrs. James Smvth and Sons, Suffolk ; 
Messrs. VVoolnough and Co., Kingston-on-Thames ; and Mr. 
Gilbert, Berkshire. Many of these implements showed minor 
improvements, particularly in the way of increasing the facilities 
for varying the outlet of seed, and of adapting the machines to 
foreign countries ; but none call for special mention. 
One of the leading features of the British display was the 
magnificent muster of reapers and mowers and other imple- 
ments used in the harvesting of crops. The exhibitors of these 
were numerous, among them being Messrs. Hornsby and Sons ; 
Messrs. Howard ; Messrs. Samuelson and Co., Banbury ; Messrs. 
Aveling and Porter, Rochester ; Messrs. Picksley, Sims and 
Co., Leigh ; Mr. G. Kearsley, Ripon ; Messrs. Burgess and 
Key, London ; Messrs. Harrison, McGregor and Co., Leigh ; Mr. 
Bamlett, Thirsk ; Messrs. Ruston, Proctor and Co., Lincoln ; 
and Mr. Neale, London. Among a collection of these well- 
known reapers and mowers and other harvesting machines, made 
by Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, there was the five-arm spring- 
balance self-raker lor two horses, with an ingenious arrangement 
by which the driver without leaving his seat has control over 
the rakes, and can at will cause them to deliver the cut crop 
lying on the platform, or to pass it over to make a larger sheaf 
for delivery by the following or any other rake. The arrangement 
may be fixed to work automatically, and can yet be varied at will, 
adapting the machine to all kinds and states of crop, and the 
customs of different localities and countries. In the ' Paragon ' 
Grass-mowers some recent improvements were seen, notably a 
new spring slide for holding the connecting-rod in the knife, 
and a spring stop for keeping the knife in its place ; a new 
arrangement for throwing the machine in and out of gear by 
a slight movement of the driver's foot, and a spring catch for 
holding up the finger-bar when travelling. Messrs. Howard 
have introduced in their reapers and mowers an open gearing, 
which, among other advantages, is light in weight, of great 
strength, and prevents earth or anything else from embedding 
and endangering the teeth. The arrangement for allowing the 
knife to be drawn out and replaced has also been simplified by 
the substitution of springs for bolts, pins, and screws. One of 
the leading features of this stand was the sheaf-binder con- 
structed by the Messrs. Howard, which was exhibited at Bristol. 
Of it we need only here say that in Paris it attracted a good 
deal of attention, though, of course, it was not tried in the fields 
